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Re: Quark style spec help
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Re: Quark style spec help


  • Subject: Re: Quark style spec help
  • From: "Bob.Kalbaugh" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:00:54 -0500

on 6/22/01 12:50 AM, Shane Stanley at email@hidden wrote:

> On 22/6/01 4:40 PM +1000, Bob.Kalbaugh, email@hidden, wrote:
>
>> am I going about this correctly by creating the character
>> spec with <<class CATR>>? I'm just fiddling around here and I couldn't
>> figure out how to create it any other way. Is there something I'm missing?
>
> No, you're not missing anything -- that's <<class YAQB>> (Yet Another Quark
> Bug). I suspect it's old code that happens to still work -- there's no class
> CATR in the QXP 4.1 dictionary (character attributes is CHAT).

Thank you, Shane,

Seems that using <<classCATR>> is a *buggy* way of creating new char specs.
Just curious though. I tried the following:

tell application "QuarkXPress 4.1"
activate
make new document at beginning
tell document 1
make new character spec at end with properties {name:"charTest",
character attributes:{font:"Helvetica", size:"18 pt", color:"Red"}}
end tell
end tell

and I really thought it would work because it parallels the syntax for
creating *style* specs with prop's in place, - but it generated

error - "QuarkXPress 4.1 can't get document 1"
-- it creates the style but doesn't set the char attributes

So then what, may I ask, *is* the proper syntax to use for creating new char
specs? I'm not sure if I'm comfortable exploiting... "YAQB".

cheers,

bob kalbaugh


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